Ex parte Sparks
California Supreme Court
WRIT of habeas corpus from the Supreme Court to the sheriff of Sacramento County to test the jurisdiction of the Police Court of the City of Sacramento to convict the defendant of a misdemeanor. George G. Davis, Judge. •The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTemple, J.
This is a proceeding upon habeas corpus. The petitioner states that he was arrested upon a complaint sworn to before one E. C. Rutherford, who claimed to be clerk of the police court of the city of Sacramento, and was thereafter tried and convicted in a pretended police court of said city, which court was presided over by Honorable G-. G-. Davis, who styled himself police judge, and was sentenced in said pretended court by said alleged judge to six months imprisonment in the county jail of Sacramento county, and is now held by Frank T. Johnson, sheriff, by'virtue of said judgment and…
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